Table
#1
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Downtown
- Beautify
and enhance historic downtown
- Attractive
multi-family units
- Share
parking/future parking structure
- Setback
rule is bad
Versailles
Center
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Table
#2
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Downtown
- More residential downtown
- Bury overhead utilities
- Make
streets walkable for seniors
Lexington
Road
- Rebuild:
Buildings in front, parking behind
- Pedestrian-friendly
Versailles
Center
- Smaller
buildings - don't forget local business
- Theatres,
restaurants
- Neo-traditional,
fronts and backs, alleys
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Table
#3
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Downtown
- Number one priority: Historic
buildings
- Bike paths, repair sidewalks!
- Transportation system (trolley)
Versailles
Center
- Green
space
- Entrance
experience - fountain or monument
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Table
#4
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Downtown
- Defined edges, no sprawl
- Keep historic character, design
standards
- Real employment opportunities
- Roadways to get to the south end of
town
Versailles Center
- Boulevard treatment with sidewalks
and bike paths
- Better standards for new buildings
with lighting, signage, proportions
- Real functioning town with
recreation, movies, and restaurants
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Table
#5
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Downtown
- Historic District - incentives to
restore
- Litter control, fines, recycling
Versailles Center
- Choice one would be no strip
development
- Make it walkable
- Public transportation for the county
- Mix residential with business
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Table
#6
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Downtown
- Keep the "feel" of downtown
- Promote apartments upstairs
- Architecture, landscape rules
Lexington Road
- Traffic calming, reduce curb cuts
- Narrow lanes, on-street parking
- Trees
- Connected parking lots
Versailles Center
- Create a park in the neighborhood
center
- Minimize pavement
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Table
#7
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- Promote more upscale housing
- Post Office could have branch
downtown
- More recreation, etc.
- Roundabout at the crazy intersection
- Avoid the "big box" look
- We're tree-happy people
- Make a whole new image, make it more
people-friendly (not just in downtown)
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Table
#8
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Downtown
- Create new excitement downtown
- Ground floor commerce, residential
upstairs
- Wrap park with buildings
- Use railroad bed for
"pedway"
Versailles Center
- Match the ambience of downtown, but
not a competitive duplicate
- Not just one story
- No big-box chain store
- No dead side to buildings, no blank
walls
- Pedestrian access across Lexington
Road
- Create neighborhood around Versailles
Center
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Table
#9
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Downtown
- Road system should not be
"tail-wagging dog"
- Walkable, bikeable town
- Clean up the corridor leading to town
Versailles Center
- No big box just sitting there
- Sense of arrival
- Complementary and connected downtowns
- Things for children, like movies
- Reuse old buildings for community
center or seniors
- Parking structure downtown
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Table
#10
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Downtown
- Mixed use, increased residential
- Roundabouts at Woodford Feed
- Bus or trolley
- Green medians like Richmond Road in
Lexington
Versailles Center
- Terminate vista with architecture
- Connected roads
- Residential: Grid streets, alleys
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Table
#11
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Downtown
- Parking structure somewhere
- Tree-lined vista
Lexington Road
- Rejected roundabout
- Proposed instead more connections,
network of streets
Versailles Center
- Not a standard strip mall
- Break up parking area
- Make anchor building reusable
- Usable green space, maybe incorporate
homes
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